More Newbies.

There were quite a few new customers in the shop today.

It seems that people from The Bay are taking advantage of the 50km travel limit rule and escaping their isolation by visiting our lovely town.

Our local cafe opened for the first time in 8 weeks, so these visitors go there to order food and then visit our shop while they wait. They are not spenders but they are friendly and chatty and they fill the day with good vibes.

The fours hours passed very quickly and I had to make a stock order for a lady who ordered something months ago and I didn’t follow up.

Oops.

It’s ok. The order should be here in 4 days.

It was nice to arrive home and be greeted by three healthy dogs and we got to spend the afternoon relaxing together instead of rushing into town!

Thankfully, today was uneventful.

Looking forward to a morning with The Motivator tomorrow.

Nite all.

Opportunity

Well I certainly had a perfect opportunity to practice the power of detachment today ... twice!

It was a nice day at work and Adoring Husband picked me up at 2pm.

All of the psychotic dogs were happy to see me - nothing unusual - all wagging their tails and pushing each other out of the way to get a pat.

I opened the sliding door to give them the opportunity to go outside for toileting and then made my way to the kitchen to put away the meat that we’d just purchased at the butcher.

I turned around to discover a large bile coloured spew on the floor behind me. Then we heard a yelping dog outside but the yelping didn’t stop so we rushed outside to discover Colli lying on her side and not moving. The yelping had stopped but she was obviously in a bad way.

She didn’t move until Adoring Husband attempted to pick her up and she very gingerly lifted her body enough for AH to get his hands around her body to lift her into his arms.

I grabbed a towel from the laundry and we put her in the back seat of the car while AH called the vet to be sure we could get in straight away, which we could. So we drove directly to The Bay with her sitting on my lap looking quite agitated and panting heavily.

AH was stressing to the max, thinking the worst and asking a million questions, so I practiced my power to detach. I regulated my breathing, took a step back and observed our situation objectively. Instead of being dragged into AH’s drama, I remained calm, put my emotions aside, tossed the rope and waited until he was ready to help himself out of it. (Just quietly, I don’t think he’s taken the rope yet!)

The vet was very worried about Colli’s heart and thought that she may have had a seizure. She had noticed on our last visit that Colli’s heartbeat was a little erratic (due to age and deterioration) so she said that nature’s way of attempting to ‘reset’ was a seizure.

Dr Amanda asked us to leave Colli there so that she could administer a fluid drip, give her some medication and monitor her heart. She hoped that if Colli responded well enough she wouldn’t have to stay overnight.

Instead of returning home immediately, we tried killing some time with the hopes we would receive a phone call sooner rather than later. The vet called about an hour later to say that she was responding well and we could pick her up in 90 minutes.

We burnt a rather large hole in our pocket while killing 90 minutes!

When we returned to pick her up, there was a woman with two young men and a large dog wrapped in a blanket waiting in the reception area. She was patting the dog, crying and telling it that she loved it.

The vet saw them first and took them into the room.

It wasn’t long before there was loud, gut wrenching sobbing coming from the room.

AH had to step outside.

The power of detachment. The power of detachment. The power of detachment.

I too stepped outside.

Dr Amanda came to us after it was all over, obviously affected by the emotional trauma that that poor family just endured and she told us it was her third one that day and tomorrow looked like being just as bad.

She was happy that she could end the day with our ‘good news’ Colli.

It was 6.30 pm when we finally sat down and put our feet up.

I bought some Rogan josh lamb and chicken with rice for dinner from the little restaurant in Eli Waters. Delicious.

Time to sleep now.

Nite all.

Power to Detach

The power of detachment - detachment is experiencing our feelings and emotions in the moment without allowing them to control us. It is being able to step back and observe situations objectively, and then acting on inspiration or intuition, instead of emotion.

It means that instead of falling into the pit of despair with your friends and family, you can remain strong and loving and supportive above that pit.

It means not being dragged into the drama but throwing a rope so that they can pull themselves out of the pit when they’re ready.

Yesterday was a write off for me.

By lunch time I felt very unwell. By 3pm I was in bed. By 5pm I was asleep. I slept until 6am this morning ... hence no blog post on Wednesday.

Today I felt like I was in recovery mode so I took it easy. Tomorrow I work.

The Motivator sold a piece of my art today! This one ...

That’s a bit exciting 🤩

Here is where I wish Beautiful Girl With The Long Blonde Hair a happy birthday!! No fun in isolation and certainly not the way we planned our birthdays this year, but we made it to another year older and instead of having our road trip almost over, we actually have it to look forward to next year!

Time for sleep now, but before I go, here is a 25 minute video with some thought provoking information.



Nite all.

Brace yourself

This blog will be ten years old next January. Can you believe it!?

Some interesting information regarding autism Proof?

What I’ve noticed, in this time of uncertainty, is that everywhere you look, we are being told what to think, who to believe and how to behave.

Even though this so-called pandemic is unprecedented (never known or done before), we are listening to people who have made themselves the voice of authority - even though they too have had no previous experience to base their advice or orders.

Their decisions, on our behalf, were based on fear of the unknown and educated guesses that had to be made quickly and without factual scientific evidence at the time.

Because they had placed themselves in the position of power and authority, and because we believe that people in authority are our leaders, we blindly did as we were told and we did it without question and without searching further afield for answers.

The media were fed all of their information from these same people in authority and they added their own pinch of drama for effect.

Why do we believe with 100% certainty that they are doing the right thing by us?

Why do we not question their information?

Why do we DISbelieve anybody who tells us different information? Even if they are medical professionals who are currently working in the busiest hospitals dealing with this apparent health crisis? Or scientists doing the research and who are qualified to provide accurate and up-to-date information?

Why do the media NOT share that new information? 

Why do we consider the people who provide different data and facts as quacks or conspiracy theorists?

Why do we believe that we are not smart enough ourselves to do our own research?

Why do we not take advantage of all the resources available to us to look for the ‘other’ facts out there in the ether?

Why do we give mainstream media so much power over our lives, our emotions and our belief systems?

Why do we pick a side and refuse to budge no matter what new information comes to hand?

Why do we get angry when when people like me ask these questions?

We are fearful of having to make our own decisions.

If we make our own decisions and we are wrong, we have only ourselves to blame.

If we follow the advice of authority and THEY are wrong, we can blame THEM.

We can all band together and say “they should have ...” or “they could have ...” or “why did they ...” or “why didn’t they ...”

And what if there is a hidden agenda?

It’s much easier to be angry with everyone else after the fact.

Right now, ALL of our information is censored. 

We are given one-sided opinions and information and we are being fed fear based stories to keep us in silent unquestioning conformity.

Anybody who questions authority, goes against the grain or doesn’t conform is vilified to the ‘nth’ degree ... by the media, by the authorities and by the cowering conformists.

As always, it’s THEM and US.

My mantra is always question EVERYTHING 🤨 

Open your heart, lose the fear and know your own power because 7 billion of us are handing over our power to a handful of people and as a consequence many of us are losing our jobs, our homes, our mental health, our future and our freedom.

The reality of the world is not what you think.

Now, to momentarily distract you from my intensity ...

Funny dogs not wanting a bath

Nite all.

An Every Day Message

An 11 minute video about the power of your mind and it’s capabilities.

Firstly, who is Bruce Lipton ?



This one caught my fancy. I’m not a cat fan but I smiled a lot watching this.

Cats vs invisible wall

Three things I’m grateful for today:

1. Beautiful Autumn pink sunset skies.
2. Fresh strawberries and guava.
3. Supermarket shelves full of toilet paper.

I was lucky enough to receive breakfast in bed again this morning. A fabulous way to start my day. Thank you Adoring Husband 😘

It was another unproductive day for me. I have many things on my ‘to do’ list but absolutely no motivation to do any of them.

Fish for lunch. Duck for dinner.

I need to find my mojo. I need to find the power of my mind! I need to listen to Bruce Lipton’s message! Among others.

I need to sleep.

Nite all.

Back at it!

We opened the shop for three hours today and some of our favourite customers came to say hi and practiced some retail therapy.

The nonessential stores have all been closed for six weeks so there are some of us hanging out to put our shopping goggles on!

It was definitely worth opening and it was a happy day.

I found all of these pics that reminded me of my childhood so I just had to share because I know that most of you will have some memories triggered by these too.

I had a very emotional afternoon watching the end of season 11 of Grey’s Anatomy ... when Derek died 😭😭😭

The weather has cooled beautifully and the mornings are perfect for snuggling under the doona. I love this time of the year.

Three things for which I’m grateful:

1. Cool Autumn weather and snuggling under the doona.
2. Adoring Husband bringing me breakfast in bed for my first day back at work.
3. A friendly community willing to support our little shop.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Nite all.